When comparing GNOME Web vs Brave, the Slant community recommends Brave for most people. In the question“What are the best desktop web browsers?”Brave is ranked 2nd while GNOME Web is ranked 42nd. The most important reason people chose Brave is:

Things like https everywhere and no tracking are standard with Brave. In most other browsers, things like these are optional at best.

Pros

Pro

Lightweight

Epiphany is pretty lightweight and doesn't require much memory to start up.

Pro

Fits in perfectly with the GNOME desktop

Since it is a GNOME app, you get all the benefits of the GNOME desktop. It's easy to use, Epiphany just works out of the box. It stores your web site passwords in the secure GNOME keyring, and uses your existing desktop settings to launch applications and access the network, so you don't need to configure everything twice.

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Excellent alternative to the most popular web browsers

Sometimes my workflow involves using separate browsers. I like mail in app tabs, but some jobs are well suited to a lighter, simpler web browser.

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Default in many GNOME versions

Epiphany has been the default browsers for many distributions that use stock GNOME for a long time now (although it's being replaced by the much more popular Firefox lately).

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GNOME integrated

Includes features specific to GNOME like turning sites into apps that are managed with GNOME software and the ability to install GNOME extensions.

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For Linux and Windows

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Safety and privacy well taken care of

Things like https everywhere and no tracking are standard with Brave. In most other browsers, things like these are optional at best.

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Free/libre software

Released to the community under the Mozilla Public License (MPL), this software respect the FSF's four freedoms, including the freedom to use, modify, and redistribute with or without modification freely.

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Built in Adblock

Contains an optional "Allow Brave Acceptable Ads" So you can support the site you truly enjoy.

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Option to disable additional privacy concerns

Like fingerprint tracking.

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Option to pay supported sites based on view time percentage

Set up automatic micro-donations. Brave will automatically divide a monthly donation among the top sites you visit.

And/or, you can decide which sites get what percentage of your donation. It’s called pinning.

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Planned optional feature for you to get reimbursed for viewing ads

Basic Attention Token; you will be able to opt into a new blockchain-based digital advertising system, giving publishers a better deal and users a share of the ad revenue for their attention.

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Tor is available right in the browser

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Very Fast and built in adblock.

The fastest browser out there. With the latest update Brave is my favorite browser on my PC and on my Phone. The built in adblock and the rewards system are amazing.

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Cons

Con

Not much room for configuration

The choice for extensions is very limited, although there are decent extensions for the most useful activities and features it still cannot compare to the extensive collections that other browsers may have access to.

The number of tweaks that can be done to the browser from the options menu is also very limited since Epiphany follows a philosophy of "less is more". While this can be enjoyable for some it still hinders a lot of functionality and removes the ability to personalize the browser the way you want it to be.

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Crashes often

Epiphany can crash on a heavy load or when closing/opening tabs. While this only happens every few days, it still happens more often than in most other browsers.

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Becomes messy on highly graphical pages

Sometimes struggles to handle complex graphical pages such as Facebook. In these circumstances, it becomes 'messy' - text and graphics get mixed up - and will eventually crash. Even so, this is a light and useful browser.

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New, and a bit buggy still

Developers are rapidly killing bugs, but it still sometimes suffers a glitch or two. Until the developers get caught up, it still feels like a brand new product.

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Poor plugin support

Still missing many essential plugins

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No dark theme / theming whatsoever

There is no ability to theme the browser, meaning that people who use dark themed Linux desktops will just have to live with clashing colors between the rest of their desktop and the brave menu bar.

Con

Interface is outdated, and still can see the tabs in fullscreen mode

With the latest version this should be fixed

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Dumbed down in the latest versions

In previous versions, Brave felt more like Firefox. Now it's been dumbed down, it feels more like Chrome/Chromium. For example: There's no menu-bar. And when you install Brave, it just installs: It doesn't give you any options on how to install it.

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Same security-holes as Chrome

On the desktop: Brave uses the same browser engine as Chrome, meaning it has the same security-holes as Chrome. Chrome is a big target for hackers (being the most popular browser in the world), and a webpage that will hack Chrome may also hack Brave.

However, Brave has security features that Chrome doesn't (such as a built-in adblocker). Those features will stop many hacking attempts.

Con

No reader view

Can be accessed with an extension

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No menu bar

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Download package is very large considering it as a browser

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No custom adblock filter support

On some pages some ads are still showing up or some anti adblock scripts are blocking Brave Shield. Had to install uBlock Origin as second adblock.

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No Sync at the moment

There is no device sync available at the moment but it is coming soon

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